God speaks to us; through
our sense of right and wrong; through that I say, God speaks to us,
whether in reproof or encouragement, in wrath or in love; to teach
us what he is like, and to teach us what he is not like.

To know God. That is the side on which we must look at this text on
Trinity Sunday. If man be made in the image of God, then we may be
able to know something at least of God, and of the character of God.
If we have the copy, we can guess at least at what the original is
like.

From the character, therefore, of every good man, we may guess at
something of the character of God. But from the character of Jesus
Christ our Lord, who is the very brightness of his Father's glory
and the express image of his person, we may see perfectly--at least
perfectly enough for all our needs in this life, and in the life to
come--what is the character of God, who made heaven and earth.

I beseech you to remember this--I beseech you to believe this, with
your whole hearts, and minds, and souls, and especially just now.

For there are many abroad now who will tell you, man can know
nothing of God.

Answer them: 'If your God be a God of whom I can know nothing, then
he is not my God, the God of the Bible. For he is the God who has
said of old, "They shall not teach each man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least unto the
greatest." He is the God, who, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
accused and blamed the Jews because they did NOT know him, which if
they COULD NOT know him would have been no fault of theirs. Of
doctrines, and notions, and systems, it is written, and most truly,
"I know in part, and I prophesy in part," and again, "If a man
thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he
ought to know." But of God it is written, "This is life eternal, to
know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent."'

But they will say, man is finite and limited, God is infinite and
absolute, and how can the finite comprehend the infinite?

Answer: 'Those are fine words: I do not understand them; and I do
not care to understand them; I do not deny that God is infinite and
absolute, though what that means I do not know. But I find nothing
about his being infinite and absolute in the Bible. I find there
that he is righteous, just, loving, merciful, and forgiving; and
that he is angry too, and that his wrath is a consuming fire, and I
know well enough w